intrinsic vs medial

intrinsic

adj
  • Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member. 

  • Built-in. 

  • Innate, inherent, inseparable from the thing itself, essential. 

noun
  • A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library. 

  • An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment. 

medial

adj
  • Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ. 

  • Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it. 

  • (of a speech sound) In the middle of a word. 

  • Closer to the addressee. 

  • Of or pertaining to a mean or average. 

  • Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media. 

  • (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue. 

noun
  • One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word. 

  • Any of various things that occur in the middle. 

How often have the words intrinsic and medial occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )